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** Harry's not the only one to do this, either; {{spoiler|Madrigal Raith attempts to kill Mouse by driving a car into him.}} Again, subverted in that it doesn't work too well; {{spoiler|Mouse turns out to be [[Only Mostly Dead]]}}].
* The pulp series ''The Spider'' featured this several times, at least once with a bus.
* ''[[Harry Potter
* The ''[[Zombie Survival Guide]]'' specifically subverts this trope -- saying that it's a good way to ruin your car, spread virus-containing blood everywhere, and turns a fairly easy-to-see walking zombie into a much-harder-to-spot ''crawling zombie.''
** Although it does go on to say that larger vehicles like semis and armored trucks have some decent applications as mobile forts.
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* Eva rides a motorcycle up Ocelot's face the first time they meet on-screen in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]]''. He somehow survives.
** [[Temporal Paradox|Time Paradox!]]
** Not something one can do in gameplay, but Raiden gets caught at the end of act 2 in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots|MGS4]]'' by the manipulator cords of two of the Gekko mini-metal gears. He proceeds to spin around like a breakdancer and use the 5ton machines as a pair of flails. With his feet. A hugely immersion-breaking [[Wizard Did It|CyberNanobotsDidIt]] moment.
* In the game ''Total Overdose'' you can do a [[Bullet Time]]-style dive out of a car before it crashes into something, also if you jump out of the car just before an impact, no matter how soft this will be, the [[Molotov Truck|car]] [[Every Car Is a Pinto|will]] [[Made of Explodium|explode]].
* Used in ''KKND'' by certain vehicles, the robot faction in the sequel are immune to it.
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== Web Original ==
* The ''[[Everyman HYBRID]]'' crew try to run down ''[[Humanoid Abomination|the Slender Man]]'' in "Ashen Waste". They get teleported back to their basement for their troubles.
* Akiko Yamaguchi from [[
* In the [[Whateley Universe]], Aquerna was once rescued from a (superpowered) bully by Skids, who spun out a snowmobile just right to smack the guy in the butt and launch him headfirst into a snowbank.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[
** Dio Brando effortlessly throws two cars at Jotaro in their climactic battle. Jotaro later counters with Tower Fu.
** Dio Brando also effortlessly tries to squish Jotaro under an oil tanker. While time was frozen, no less.
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